Matters Helping All Parents: Cultural Competency Week 2

“These issues are not relevant to us. We don’t have any diversity in our community”

Diversity exists in every community. Diversity doesn’t refer only to race and ethnicity, but to the entire spectrum of human identity.

“I don’t see any discrimination here”

It would be difficult to find any community that is completely free of discrimination or oppression. Some acts of discrimination occur between individuals and are easier to notice. Other forms of discrimination are embedded into the way society runs and are, therefore, harder to detect. Look for the following signs of harassment or discrimination: